Cassel, Paulus

(Stephanus Selig), D.D. (Vienna, 1874), United Evangelical; b. of Jewish parents, at Gro glogau, Silesia, Feb. 27, 1821 educated at the University of Berlin; became a rabbi; was baptized May 28, 1855, at Bu leben, near Erfurt; became licentiate of theology of Erlangen, 1856; profe or at Erfurt, the same year; since 1859 public lecturer in Berlin, and gymnasial Oberlelirer: and since Jan. 5, 1868, pastor of Christ Church. In early life he was a political journalist, and in 1866-67 was a member of the Pru ian parliament. He is a member of the Erfurt Academy and other societies. Since 1875 he has edited the Berlin weekly Sunem. His writing's are very numerous. Of the theological, may be mentioned article Geschichte der Juden in Ersch u. Gruber, II., t. 27 (1850); Der Prophet Elisa, 1860; Das Buck der Richter und Ruth, Bielefeld, 1865 (in Lange's Commentary, English trans., ed. Schaff, New York, 1871); Fiir ernste Stunden. Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen, 1868, 2d ed. 1881; Altkirchlicher Festkalender nach Urspriingen und Brduchen, 1869; Sunem, 1. Hft., 1869; Das Evangelium der So/me Zebed'di (holds that the Fourth Gospel was composed by James and John), Berlin, 1870, 2d ed. 1881; Aus guten Stunden, Gotha, 1874; Die Gerechtigkeit aus dem Glauben, 1874; A polo get is che Briefe, Berlin, 1875; Hallelujah (189 hymns), 1878; Das Buch Esther (aus d. Hebr. iibersetzt, historisch u. theologisch erl'autert; 1 Abth. Im Anh. die Uebersetzg. d. 2. Targum), 1878; Die Symbolik des Blutes und "der arme He in rich" von Hartmann von Aue, 1882; Christliche Sittenlehre. Eine Auslegung des Briefes Pauli an Titus. Mit ein. Schlu bemerkung iiber Semitismus, 1882; Die Hochzeit von Cana, theologisch und historisch, in Symbol, Kunst und Legende ausgelegt. Mit e. Einleitung in das Evangelium Johannis, 1883; Fredegunde, Eine Novelle in Briefen, Leipzig, 1883; Aus Literatur und Symbolik, 1884; A has ver us, Die Sage vom ewiqen Juden, Berlin, 1885; Ueber die Probebibel, 1885 sq.